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Income inequality and poverty in front of and during the economic crisis: An empirical investigation for Germany 2002 - 2010
Falk, Jürgen - 2012
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286914
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Impacts of an ageing society on macroeconomics and income inequality: The case of Germany since the 1980s
Faik, Jürgen - 2012
macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric …; afterwards, these connections are used to produce a nexus between German income inequality and the stated macroeconomic variables … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290732
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Income Inequality and Poverty in Front of and during the Economic Crisis: An Empirical Investigation for Germany 2002-2010
Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128947
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Impacts of an Ageing Society on Macroeconomics and Income Inequality: The Case of Germany since the 1980s
Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the … correlated with income inequality, and regarding economic growth a (slightly) concave effect upon income inequality has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128974
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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if … with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM estimator and use the presumably random incidence of certain … reduces inequality levels. The result is robust with respect to the instrument count and different data restrictions. Looking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600978
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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if … with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM estimator and use the presumably random incidence of certain … reduces inequality levels. The result is robust with respect to the instrument count and different data restrictions. Looking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740509
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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335342
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795302
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Income distribution and the fear of crime: Evidence from Germany
Acampora, Michelle; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Grabka, Markus M. - 2020
the aggregate level, the main driver is equally income polarization, whereas the standard measure of inequality, the Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012173603
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Nominal or real? The impact of regional price levels on satisfaction with life
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2013
We study the effect of real versus nominal income on life satisfaction. According to economic theory real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of life satisfaction. Previous work, however, has only studied the impact of nominal income. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314763